Holocracy

Goals

1. Designing roles that match individual capability with organizational goals
2. Making decisions closer to the work
3. Responding to emerging market needs

Implementation

• Lead link - Responsible for assigning people to roles in circles

Employees carve parts of their job they don't want into new roles, which lead links can assign people to

• There is still organizational structure, it's actually very nested
• There's still hierarchy, it's just contextual
• It's not majority rule- changes are adopted unless someone else proposes that they are harmful

Issues

• Splits attention in a lot of different directions (an average of 3 responsibilities per each of the 7 roles someone has on average)
• Complicates compensation
• Complicates hiring
• While differences in status are mitigated, they definitely still exist
• When leadership is a shared responsibility, everyone must practice it